Football Special Report: Liverpool Football Club’s Most Disappointing signings (Part 1)
Every year the Reds like all other big clubs out there are linked with numerous signings, a whole list of players are moved around and they find them playing in new clubs and grounds.
A lot of players are brought in with the expectation that they are just the right ingredients to the concoction that is the team and will brew together just right to make an elixir for the club that will make wonders and make them shine brighter than every
other club in the league.
One in a blue moon this actually happens and a major example of this is Fernando Torres, who was signed to Liverpool in 2007 when he was transferred from Atletico Madrid.
He was added to the Reds cauldron and allowed to brew and we all know that he made a great mix there.
More often than not, the new signings seem to do at least a good job if they are not one of the new starlets of the team. They either quickly make a permanent part of the first team squad, or move to the squad members sitting on the benches.
The cost to bring in these additional reinforcements is never forgotten and ultimately most of them do not rise up to the task that was expected from them.
Though once in a blue moon there are those rather rare signings in a club that are major disappointments and make the managers look back to ask themselves what exactly they were thinking.
These additions make the fans, team mates and even the managers watch in horror on the level of play they are performing at.
So here is a list of the three biggest disappointments that the Reds signed with themselves under the time of Roy Evans, Rafa Benitez, Gerard Houllier and obviously Roy Hodgson.
Fernando Morientes
Fernando Morientes is the thirty four year old Spaniard that was thought to be the next best signing of the time.
He was brought into Anfield by Rafa Benitez and it was believed by him that he would be the next key goal scorer and play maker for the Reds and it was thought that he would take Liverpool to the ‘next level.’
Morientes’s main assets were believed to be his goal scoring abilities and his aerial skills. He has played for numerous clubs that include AS Monaco, Real Madrid, Valencia CF and Liverpool.
In the La Liga he has netted a hundred and twenty four goals from three hundred and thirty seven games and this has been done over a period of fifteen years.
He was signed to Real Madrid from Zaragoza in 1997 and was with them for another eight years. He made a hundred and eighty two appearances for the Los Blancos and scored seventy two goals.
He proved his ability with Real Madrid and made his reputation as a key goal scorer and a link player.
He was also loaned to Monaco from a year and that proved to be very successful as well as the Spaniard netted ten goals from twenty eight appearances.
Then after spending another year with the Spanish giants, he made his move to Anfield and the English Premier league in 2005 and came in for almost six and a half million pounds.
Initially there was little doubt that this player would not work wonders with the Reds but all that proved to be wrong.
He made forty one appearances with Liverpool and only scored eight goals. He made his Liverpool debut in a match against the Red Devils and scored his first premier league goal on the first of February 2005 in a match against Charlton Athletic.
Article Continued in Part 2.
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